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Sunday, March 02, 2008
SNL and the Democrats
Saturday Night Live decided to ease up on Hillary Clinton last night. First they had another skit portraying Tim Russert sucking up to Barack Obama in a relatively accurate portrayal of the disparity in how Russert went after the two candidates in Tuesday's debate.Then Hillary Clinton came on in person to have a rather unfunny dialog with Amy Poehler. But perhaps the short skit served to help Hillary counter the impression that she lacks a sense of humor. Of course, some of that soft, fuzzy side of Hillary might have been lost contrasted to Poehler's line in the debate skit that Americans want a shrew for president.“Someone so annoying, so pushy, so grating, so bossy and shrill, with a personality so unpleasant, that at the end of the day the special interests will have to go enough! We give up! Life is too short to deal with this awful woman!”Then add in Tina Fey's endorsement of Hillary because she's a bitch and bitches are the ones who get things done like the nuns who beat kids in Catholic schools.
“And I think the American people will agree,” she added, “that someone is me.”
Of course, anyone who changes their vote based on how a candidate is portrayed on SNL is truly pitiful. And has just as much of a vote as the person who has devoted hours to comparing the candidates' policy positions on their websites.
I notice that SNL is still not making fun of Obama. The only humor they can find is how other people, journalists in particular, are just bowled over by him. I'm still waiting for them to ridicule him for something intrinsic to his persona as they do for Hillary's bitchiness, Bill Clinton's randiness, or Bush's IQ.
As for the whole debate about whether it's racist for SNL to use a non-black man, Fred Armisen, to play Barack Obama, phooey on that. Sun Times columnist Maureen Ryan complained that SNL didn't find a black performer to play Obama. She recommended that they use Maya Rudolph to play Obama. I guess his race transcends his gender as the characteristic most important to match. As the Washington Post pointed out on Friday in covering this mini-brouhaha, no one complained when Armisen played Prince or Darryl Hammond played Jesse Jackson or Billy Crystal played Sammy Davis, Jr. And Barack Obama is half-white anyway. Is this the one-drop rule of comedic impersonations?Labels: Humor
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Saturday Night Live decided to ease up on Hillary Clinton last night. First they had another skit portraying Tim Russert sucking up to Barack Obama in a relatively accurate portrayal of the disparity in how Russert went after the two candidates in Tuesday's debate.Then Hillary Clinton came on in person to have a rather unfunny dialog with Amy Poehler. But perhaps the short skit served to help Hillary counter the impression that she lacks a sense of humor. Of course, some of that soft, fuzzy side of Hillary might have been lost contrasted to Poehler's line in the debate skit that Americans want a shrew for president.
Of course, anyone who changes their vote based on how a candidate is portrayed on SNL is truly pitiful. And has just as much of a vote as the person who has devoted hours to comparing the candidates' policy positions on their websites.
I notice that SNL is still not making fun of Obama. The only humor they can find is how other people, journalists in particular, are just bowled over by him. I'm still waiting for them to ridicule him for something intrinsic to his persona as they do for Hillary's bitchiness, Bill Clinton's randiness, or Bush's IQ.
As for the whole debate about whether it's racist for SNL to use a non-black man, Fred Armisen, to play Barack Obama, phooey on that. Sun Times columnist Maureen Ryan complained that SNL didn't find a black performer to play Obama. She recommended that they use Maya Rudolph to play Obama. I guess his race transcends his gender as the characteristic most important to match. As the Washington Post pointed out on Friday in covering this mini-brouhaha, no one complained when Armisen played Prince or Darryl Hammond played Jesse Jackson or Billy Crystal played Sammy Davis, Jr. And Barack Obama is half-white anyway. Is this the one-drop rule of comedic impersonations?
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Saturday Night Live decided to ease up on Hillary Clinton last night. First they had another skit portraying Tim Russert sucking up to Barack Obama in a relatively accurate portrayal of the disparity in how Russert went after the two candidates in Tuesday's debate.Then Hillary Clinton came on in person to have a rather unfunny dialog with Amy Poehler. But perhaps the short skit served to help Hillary counter the impression that she lacks a sense of humor. Of course, some of that soft, fuzzy side of Hillary might have been lost contrasted to Poehler's line in the debate skit that Americans want a shrew for president.
“Someone so annoying, so pushy, so grating, so bossy and shrill, with a personality so unpleasant, that at the end of the day the special interests will have to go enough! We give up! Life is too short to deal with this awful woman!”Then add in Tina Fey's endorsement of Hillary because she's a bitch and bitches are the ones who get things done like the nuns who beat kids in Catholic schools.
“And I think the American people will agree,” she added, “that someone is me.”
Of course, anyone who changes their vote based on how a candidate is portrayed on SNL is truly pitiful. And has just as much of a vote as the person who has devoted hours to comparing the candidates' policy positions on their websites.
I notice that SNL is still not making fun of Obama. The only humor they can find is how other people, journalists in particular, are just bowled over by him. I'm still waiting for them to ridicule him for something intrinsic to his persona as they do for Hillary's bitchiness, Bill Clinton's randiness, or Bush's IQ.
As for the whole debate about whether it's racist for SNL to use a non-black man, Fred Armisen, to play Barack Obama, phooey on that. Sun Times columnist Maureen Ryan complained that SNL didn't find a black performer to play Obama. She recommended that they use Maya Rudolph to play Obama. I guess his race transcends his gender as the characteristic most important to match. As the Washington Post pointed out on Friday in covering this mini-brouhaha, no one complained when Armisen played Prince or Darryl Hammond played Jesse Jackson or Billy Crystal played Sammy Davis, Jr. And Barack Obama is half-white anyway. Is this the one-drop rule of comedic impersonations?
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